Reaction to my article about withdrawal of the $1 million Cope Court donation

Here are links to articles, blog posts, and discussion stemming from my article for The Daily Kent Stater/Kentwired.com about Kent State alum Jason Cope withdrawing his $1 million donation (check my previous post for details).

• Chronicle of Higher Education interview: “5 minutes with the Student Journalist Who Dug up the Background of a $1 million donor“
• College Media Matters: “Daily Kent Stater Report on Potential Donor’s Financially Shady Past Earns National Buzz“
• Rolling Stone magazine mentions the incident in their “threat assessment“
• TV news: NewsChannel5 interviewed me for their evening news broadcast on Friday, January 13 (click for video/story)
• Washington Monthly wrote a blog called “The alumnus giveth and the alumnus taketh away“
• The Columbia Journalism Review has a blurb about my article.
• The Student Press Law Center writes about my use of SEC and FINRA records.
• Austin Involved links to the story and discusses “what to do with dirty money“
• The Chronicle of Higher Education blog featured the story.
• Jim Romenesko (!) featured the Cope Court story in his blog.
• The Cleveland Plain Dealer wrote about the story.
• The Akron Beacon Journal picked up the story.
• A blog post about my article by Kent State professor Bill Sledzik called “The price of a free press at Kent State? $1 million.” The post features interesting analysis and great discussion in the comments section.
• The “Flash Fanatics” message board, on ncaabbs.com, discusses the story.
• Also published in the Record Courier, the article has drawn interesting comments.
• There have also been plenty of comments on Twitter, but because of the inability to search for old comments, there is no point linking to a Twitter search.